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From: "Miles Buzzing" <miles@guildfrd.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Sega announcement
Date: 6 Mar 1999 21:23:47 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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> I mean come on...  Isn't the point of console gaming to upgrade the unit
as
> little as possible and enjoy the great games...   I'm sick and tired of
> Microsoft trying to get into the console industry....  They are obviously
> trying to make the Dreamcast more PC like...   Sheeeesshhh....

This is a good point. I think Sega may have made a big mistake aligning
themselves with Microsoft. Who wants a console that behaves like a PC for
chisakes! The PC is nothing more than 80's technology augmented with 15
years of upgrades and patches - what a mess. Imagine a Sinclair ZX81
clocked and patched to perform like a playstation - I've broken out in a
cold sweat already!

Consoles are sexy because they designed from the ground up to fulfil one
key requirement - to play great games. Having programmed in 'C' on both PCs
and Net Yaroze what strikes me is the purity of the playstation
architecture. It may run at the fraction of the speed of the pentium 266 on
which I am writing this message but it pisses all over it when it comes to
game play!

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of playing my existing playstation
games on Playstation2. But it stikes me that Sega appear to have
compremised themselves in order to accrue support from existing PC
developers. Isn't that a big like the tail wagging the dog?

- Miles